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Seven Pounds

2008

Gabriele Muccino

Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Barry Pepper ...

7.1

62,687

Drama. Romance The emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers. A suicidal IRS Agent (Will Smith) sets out to make amends but inadvertently falls in love thereby complicating his plans. Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is an IRS agent who is depressed and guilt-ridden about mistakes from his past. He sets out to make amends by helping seven strangers. When he meets Emily (Rosario Dawson), a beautiful woman with a heart condition, he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Some people will find it emotionally manipulative. Some people like to be emotionally manipulated. I do, when it's done well (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"May be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made. I would tell you to go out and see it for yourself, but you might take that as a recommendation"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The film's Italian director does achieve in his second American outing a pleasing blend of Hollywood professional sheen and European sensitivity to character details and nuances."	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"It takes the soggy cake for multiple layers of sentimentality topped by indigestible grandiosity."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head. Intricately constructed so as to infuriate anyone predominantly guided by rationality and intellect."	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"A Will Smith movie through and through, geared more toward uplift than any serious consideration of mortality and sacrifice. For a time, though, it fools viewers into thinking it's something more"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Supremely annoying (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"A collage of strong scenes, dull bits, good filmmaking and a dissatisfying emotional payoff (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"It's one of the clearest portrayals of a character's doubt, and ultimate resolution, I've seen in a good long while."	POS
United States	Jim Vejvoda IGN	"Although initially intriguing, the story's big reveal happens about ten minutes too late to keep the viewer fully interested"	NEU

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